Re: [rox-users] About "How I use ROX"

[Carl B. <dr...@gm...>]

Thanks a lot!
With proper settings, I can launch every text files in one instance of vim.
I can also use rox to switch between files, whenever I click on a file that
is already open, vim switches to the correct buffer! I think I found the
perfect IDE ;)

On 3/29/07, Jim Ramsay <i....@ji...> wrote:
>
> Carl Bolduc wrote:
> > Now, I would like to know how you set the default for all text files
> > to open inside "xterm -e vim" (I guess that is what you do?). Do I
> > have to set mime-types for each type of file manually? I would also
> > want to know if it is possible to always open files in the same
> > instance of xterm+vim or if I'm forced to launch a new instance each
> > time.
>
> To run a command for all text/* files for all script names, right-click
> on any text file in Rox filer, click "Set run action", then choose "Set
> default for all 'text/<anything>', and either drag in a .desktop or
> AppDir file, or type something in the box like 'gvim "$@"'.
> (Alternatively you can edit the file or symlink called
> ~/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-types/text)
>
> If you want to reuse the same instance of gvim (or vim) for all text
> files, you can try the magic 'client/server' in vim (":h clientserver"
> for more info).  This may be only available in more recent versions of
> vim (running 7.0 here), but I'm not sure what the minimum version is.
>
> I have used this, plus a nice app called 'wmctrl' to come up
> with this magic script I called 'gvimws' (attached) which lets me have
> exactly one gvim instance per X desktop.  You could probably do
> something similar for xterm+vim, I think.
>
> --
> Jim Ramsay
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